Spin Water

"My body is not gold or stone, and the floating world is like swirling water." Seventeen years ago, Helen Mulvey, the only ninth-level arcanist in the Leiden Empire, was accused of participating in the rebellion that almost led to the destruction of the country. On the eve of the hanging, he said this fateful saying to his beloved disciple, who later became the traitor, Howard, who broke into the prison alone. On the day Helen died, the thirty-three pirates in the north declared themselves kings. An earthquake was heard in the Luolong Mountains. The "incarnation" of the forbidden card was stolen from the treasury. The oracle came down again in the Mist Shadow Forest after a thousand years... Seventeen years later, in a mining field on the border of the empire, a card named "Spinning Water" changed Hueyi's life and the fate of the empire.